Urban Releaf

Our neighbor is the founder of an organization called Urban Releaf, which plants trees in Oakland and Richmond. They apparently had four trees permitted for our property but the previous owners didn't want them so they were never planted. We of course said yes and they were planted last week.


Before


A team of volunteers planting the first tree.


After

They planted three Aristocrats along the side and a Kawakamii in front to match the other trees that are already there along the block. The trees went into shock and aren't doing so well but they should recover fine. They're losing their leaves so they may have to go bare now and then come back in the spring. As Kemba, our neighbor, said, a tree is a eight to ten year project. So if I still have a blog and the house a decade from now, I'll post a progress picture.